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34
C
Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment
much less than the punishment appointed for the same
offences in any body of Laws in force is made as light as
possible consistent with it, being in ordinary cases more
than equivilent after the allowance to be made on the
score of remitness and uncertainty to the profit of the offence
In many cases it appears smaller in that case the offence
will most assuredly be committed . Reasons Where gain is the objectsubject
every part of the gain how indirect soever it arise, so as it
be but foreseen to be likely to arise will operate as a
motive to the commissions of the offence as much any other
equal part. If the object be mischief so will every part
of the loss
If the object be gain and not mischief, yet mischief be
liable to be committed in prosecution of the gain, even here
if there be any part of the mischief without its punishment
from so much of it the offender will have no motive to —
Identifier: | JB/072/100/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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072 |
penal code |
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100 |
theft embezzlement and fraudulent obtainment |
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002 |
reasons |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f33 / f34 / f35 / f36 |
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[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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